The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1920-04-01

VOL. XIII KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1920 NO. 6
"Except a corn of wheat fall
into the ground and die, it
abideth alone, but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit,"
"And I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men
unto me."
"Said I not unto thee, that
if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God."
2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
OUR LOOM
Possibly it has not
been "clacking" all day, for
the girls and boys who work on our loom do not
spend all of their time weaving rugs. However, as
the' few hours they attend
Home are helping them to
and plans of life the things
their "tomorrow." For the
the furnishing of a
for the child. To be sure,
and could you have seen
some of the nicest ones have
thought it too crude and
the effort of trying to trans-- I iOUR while. But it has been
patient, careful work in the
the transformation. And
boy and girl, we can see
in so many ways just like
the
guidance.
rug, each life needing
little Italian boy as he
sending the shuttle back
We had long wanted
boy, but his swift feet would
whenever we went near
urchin, seldom at home,
seemingly trying each day
from everything that was
now, he seems like such
a different fellow a boy with a new purpose. And
how eagerly he talks of his own little life problems;
yes, even asking for help with his school work, that he
may be able to make good grades !
"I wonder why I feel so dizzy all the time now,"
was the question asked by one of the girls one evening;
' "I am so tired and sleepy when I get home from work
I, at night that I don't want to go anywhere.'1 We had
I gotten the strong odor of tobacco from her clothing,
t and felt sure that in some way that was the cause. We
questioned her about it and she told us of her work in
' the cigar factory, working all day in a small room with
ten other girls and no ventilation. Was it any wonder
that both mind and body, as well as the clothing, should
become saturated with the nicotine, and she would be
so tired and dizzy? "But," she added, as she tied a
broken thread in the loom, "I tell you there is one thing
J I will hot do ; the girls tell me I won't be able to stand
it if I don't eat the tobacco leaves, and I won't do that
because I think it would be wrong, wouldn't it?" Yes,
it would be all wrong, and just as the broken thread
left unmended would mean the marring of the whole
rug, so to leave our girl working under such conditions
would mean the marring of her whole life.
There are other boys and girls working at this
loom of ours. They, too, need encouragement and
direction, for as children leave the class to go to their
own homes (?) most of them do not find there the
mother who has even the first principles of instilling
1 into her child's mind the thoughts and purposes of
true living; not because she would not, but in her
earlier days she had not had the chance, or the kind
friend, or the Deaconess Home to give to her the ideals
which we are now aiming to give to her child. So
these children turn to the Deaconess Home, and from
us they must receive the ideals that will weave into
their lives the threads of honesty and truth and up- -
' I rightness, until the warp and woof is so intermingled
with the material, that in turn they may weave these
principles into the boys and girls with whom they
come in contact daily, as well as the brothers and . ji
sisters, the fathers and mothers. I'
Thus, as silently as the shuttle goes to and fro j
through our loom, the silent influence of the Christ i
is being carried into our homes of the community,
transforming the lives of our people, until we have
a veritable piece of handiwork as has been wrought i
at the Deaconess Home fitting our folks for their
places "at the loom of the great world-weaving-."
Notes from the work of the Philadelphia Deaconess i
Home.
I MYSELF AND I.
I have to live with myself and so I
I want to be fit for myself to know. I
I want to be able as days go by, I
Always to look myself in the eye. I I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, I And hate myself for the things I've done. I I want to go out with my head erect; 1
I want to deserve all men's respect; I But here in the struggle for fame and pelf, I I want to be able to like myself. I I don't want to look at myself and know I That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show. I I can never hide myself from me, I I see what others may never see; I I know what others may never know, I I can never fool myself, and so, I Whatever happens, I want to be I Self respecting and conscience free. .1
Author unknown. H
WHAT THEY DO. I During the year the membership of the Home has
been seventeen. At present it is thirteen. We have a H
number of changes among our workers. Miss Olla H
Cloud was married to Rev. T. A. Phillips, Easter Day; H
Miss Ellen Hall asked for leave of absence July 1, to H
attend school ; and Miss Laura Gamble entered work in H
Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 1. The following have en-- fl tered the Home Miss Aubrey Tyree, in Nov., 1918,
from the Detroit Home; Miss Sarah Hambleton in H
Sept., from the Newark, N. J. Home; Miss Veryl Haines H
of this year's class, of Kansas City National Training H
School. 'H
All lines of work have been advanced, through the
epidemic hindered the industrial work. There was a
total of 5,441 taught in industrial classes. We have
three industrial centers Wall St. Mission, Helping
Hand Mission, both of Sioux City and the Ft. Dodge
Mission. With the opening of colored work at Haddock
church, it was necessary to move our industrial work
to Helping Hand Mission. The mission at Ft. Dodge
has rented a large house with rooms suitable for reli-gio- us
and industrial work, also with rooms for workers.
Our workers have kept in touch with the needs and pos-sibiliti- es
of their fields as evidenced by 1,041 canvass, M
7,165 parish, 2,374 sick and 4,502 hospital calls. Regu-la-r
visitation is made at the county farm, jails and
hospitals. Meetings have been held regularly at the
packing house and wholesale houses. The traveling
public has not been forgotten, as 15,230 have been
aided. The work of religious education is well looked
after with a total of 9,085 children and young people
under instruction. Our workers have witnessed the
conversion of 420; 4,124 tracts, magazines, testaments
and leaflets have beeen distributed. Recreation has iH not been forgotten. Hundreds have been in the play
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1 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3 V hour and story-tellin- g: classes. One of our Deacon-esse- s
chaperoned the largest delegation at the Epworth
League Institute. 212 children were taken to Crystal
Lake camp for several days and 410 were taken on day
outings. The relief calls were not as many as some
years 882 were aided, 3,220 garments given and
$332.25 expended. Notes from the Sioux City, Iowa,
Deaconess Home.
HAVE WE FOUND TIME TO BE ALONE TODAY?
Have you and I
Stood silent, as with Christ, apart from joy or fear
Of life, to see by faith His face;
To look, if but a moment, at its grace,
And grow, by brief companionship, more true,
More nerved to lead, to dare, to do
For Him at any cost? Have we today
Found time, in thought, our hand to lay I In His and thus compare
His will with ours, and wear
The impress of His wish? Be sure
Such contact will endure
Throughout the day; will help us walk erect
Through storm and flood; detect
Within the hidden life sin's dross, its stain ;
Revive a thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver ; help us see
The footpath meant for you and me.
Selected. I THE PATTERN-MAKER'- S RULE.
H By the Rev. Charles Stelzle. H My chum was an apprentice in the pattern shop. H Somtimes I ate my lunch with him and then together H we roamed about the shop, studying the new machines H as well as the old ones. But one of the things that H strongly impressed me was his own set of "shrinkage" H rules. I discovered for the first time that every pat-- H tern was made larger than the mold was intended to be, H because when the pattern was put into the sand and
the mold was cast, the casting came out smaller than H the pattern, because of the shrinkage of the cooling H metal. For cast iron the rule was made an eighth of an H inch larger to the foot; for brass three sixteenths, H and for steel one-quart- er of an inch. H But so our models and our ideals always suffer in H the work of embodiment. Beethoven tells us that his
Ht beautiful symphony is but an empty echo of the l heavenly music he heard in his dreams. H It lost its divinest charm when he transferred it to H manuscript. Emerson says: "Hitch your wagon to H a star." It may be easier to build castles in the air H than to construct huts upon the ground, but the man H who never has a vision cannot even build a hut that H will really be worth while. The dreamer has his place H in the world's work, for every machine and every H great enterprise was dreamed out before it was worked B out. But dreaming and doing must go together. H Each by itself alone makes man either a drone or a H drudge. H Especially should the intensely practical man H that "hardheaded" fellow learn to center his thoughts
H on things that are not always to be found in the work--
H aday world. It will give him a broader outlook and it
H will round off some of those sharp corners that some- -
H what irritate his fellows.
Hi That pattern-maker- 's shrinkage rule taught me
Hj " that if my life was to square itself with the plans laid
out for me by God, so that it would harmonize and fit
H in with other worthy lives and plans, my ideal as to
what I should be and do must be higher and better
than the average, for those ideals would suffer
grieviously when transmuted into practical every-da- y
living. If my ideals were higher than the average,
perhaps I would make a pretty good, ordinary sort of
a fellow. I
An art student once fell asleep over the task given i
him by his master. As he lay there the master came
into his studio and with a swift glance saw the narrow-ness
of the student's unfinished work. Taking a
crayon he wrote across the face of the canvas the single '
word, "Amplius" larger. When the young fellow
awoke he grasped his master's idea, and as he realized !
how cramped had been the vision of his work he re-ceived
a new inspiration, and later he became one of
the world's greatest painters.
As Jesus looks into every man's life He writes J
across it the word "Larger" fuller. He Himself said: 11
"I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might gj
have it more abundantly." It would truly be a fine U
thing to measure up even to the best that has already I
come to us in our visions, for if we were one-ha- lf as I II
good as we know how to be we would be twice as good M
as we are. a
GREATNESS. . 'ill
We can be great by helping one another;
We can be loved by very simple deeds. I Who has the grateful mention of a brother III
Has really all the honor that he needs. ' Ml
We can be famous for our works of kindness. I'm
Fame is not born alone of strength and skill; J '
It sometimes comes from deafness and from blindness 1 ;
To petty words and faults, and loving still. 1 '
We can be rich in gentle smiles and sunny; I
A jeweled soul exceeds a royal crown. I
The richest men sometimes have little money, I
And Croesus oft-'-s the poorest man in town. J
Author unknown. I
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worlds,' said a minister, 'if God called me to do it; but 3
if He didn't call me to do it, I wouldn't undertake to
govern half a dozen sheep.' Was it not D. L. Moody j
who said : Tf God told me to jump through a stone
wall I'd try it. The jumping would be my part, the j I
getting through, God's?' When God's orders to us
are plain and unmistakable, He'll take care of the im- - 1
possibilities." j
"It is said that wlien Spurgeon was beginning to fI feel his wonderful power as a preacher and leader, one jjfl
day while walking across a common, he seemed to hear H
a voice saying, 'Seekest thou great things for thyself? H
Seek them not.' Spurgeon's full consecration, which fifl
deepened and ripened with the years, began at once H
on that common. Everything that came into his life
afterwards was of no value when compared with
Christ, eternal life and spiritual riches." H
Pictures stories information inspiration, all in HH
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4 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
The Kansas City Deaconess
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KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1920
The new addition to our Mexican Mission helps
to make our work more effective by providing adequate I room for the separate classes. It is also an aid in fur-thering
our club work.
It is with deepest regret and a sense of personal I loss that we learn of the death of Bishop Matt. S.
Hughes, which occured in Cleveland, Ohio, April 4.
May 7? Yes, that is the date of the Mite Box
Opening, and we fully expect to meet our goal of $1,-000.- I occasion.
Perhaps you want to have a part in the joy-T- ul
How dear to our hearts were the eggs that you sent us!
We scrambled and fried them and had them on toast.
We greeted them gladly, the first of the season;
And the cook made some cakes which we all lilted
the most. I Those cases of eggs we hailed as a blessing
When the express-ma- n brought them to view.
We ate them with pleasure and heart-fe- lt thanksgiving,
And oh, how they tasted if you only knew.
Some one has said that "music, the greatest of
the fine arts, has magic power to calm the soul when
all other influences fail." Through their interest in
the work of our Mexican Mission, the Kansas City I District W. H. M. S. has made it possible for us to
reach these people through good music by giving us
a piano for our work. These people enjoy music and
it is a pleasure to hear them express their apprecia-tion
story."
of this gift by the way they sing the "old, old,
All are busy! All are busy!
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students of the training school are doing.
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VISION AND TASK.
You ask me to tell you something of my work. , I
When it comes to that my heart is full and I do not I
know where to begin. Never before had I the vision i for the Americanization of our new comers as I have 1
it now. The great steamers pour out their human m
cargo at the feet of Liberty to be melted in our great Eg
Melting Pot, but without the fire of Christianity and m
the conception of true religion we cannot expect ideal I
Americans. From my observation I am convinced m
that Christian Americanization is the hope of future 1
America. fm
In our work we have two nationalities: Syrian 9
and Italian. I find that the Italian people take more m
pride in their homes and families, and their homes are w
cleaner. There is room for improvement, though. JM
The poorer class of our Italians work in the railroad sJM
shops. They receive fair wages, but it seems that they $1
do not know what it means to economize. They are m
carefree people and love pleasure. The men spend their
leisure time in Greek Coffee Houses. It was more than H
a Coffee House before prohibition; but now they are m
putting some kind of dope into the coffee, making nj
it very strong and injurious to the health. m
Another menace we have is card playing. The jfu
men lose their money gambling. A mother of four fl
children told me that her husband gambled even her jjji
wedding ring away. So far we are not able to do any-- . jm
.thing; the proprietors have the police bribed. H
The women do not know how to sew, therefore . a
they buy all their clothing ready made, and as most v H
of them have large families it takes lots of money to if,
keep them clothed. You may be surprised to know I
that in going around visiting I have discovered only I
seven Italian families having a sewing machine. I
We have a Mothers' Club for these women and I
teach them how to sew and make over things. Once I
a month we have a lecture on the value of food and I
economy; also on health and care of babies. We also I
have socials for them, where they enter into the simple j
games like children, with full hearts. M
Then we have Night School, with a present enroll- - f
ment of 28 Syrians, 18 Italians and 1 Austrian. This II
is a very promising feature of our work. It is wonder-- 11
ful how eager the men are to know our language and I
ways. We have three classes. The Board of Edu-- III
cation sends a teacher who has two classes. I have 111
the advanced class. We have a great many oppor- - J
tunities for Christian discussion, and we have them, jjl
too. Some of the men have been here from five to J
twenty years and have never been inside of a church, ft
yet they say they are Catholics. One young man had 1 1
not seen a Bible since he left Italy until the one I 1
gave him, and now it is his daily companion. I feel I1
that the night school is the only way we can get hold I
of the men. "j I
We also have a Queen Esther Circle of fifteen I
girls, all foreign born. They are so happy to do some-- "i
thing for others. jj
We have just organized a Boy Scout troop under h
a good leader. We neel to save our boys from the M
streets, especially in this city. 1 I We have sewing classes for girls on Saturday.
Our Sunday School is growing. At Christmas ft
time we sent $5.00 to the Orphans' Home in Italy, 1
and the rhildren are anxious to do something ik. that I H
again. The rhildrpn are faithful to the Sunday School If
though the Catholic priest is after them continually. V
One little crirl found a remedy for getting out of going I H
to the Catholic church by over sleeping every Sunday. jl
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H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5
Another little girl said she got a whipping for coming,
I Due with ner tea eyes sinning she swu, "i come any- -
I way!"
I We have services for everybody Sunday evening.
I As a resuit of these services tms winter live aauus
I will be uaptized and join the Metnodist church. 1 am
I very happy over that.
I ao lots or" caning and have nothing but respect
from these people. Yvhen once I get tne confidence
of the mother that I am trying to heip her sue is
very grateful, and whenever the baby has an ache
she brings it to the mission to me.
One boy, eleven years old, said one day, "I want
to go to the mission; there's where Jesus is."
Our Syrian people work for the Utah Fire & II Clay Company, receiving very poor wages, and a good
many of the Syrians peddle goods from house to house.
Some of their homes are very nice, but most of them
are very poorly furnished and are dirty. The women
have no education; some do not even know how old
they are. The men seem to be more refined and take
pride in their looks.
The foreign population in our district numbers
800 Syrians and about 600 Italians. Of these I have
discovered only three Mormons. The larger per cent
are Catholics. There is a great field here.
I am learning both Syrian and Italian, and can
say a few words. It helps me to get into their homes.
You would not imagine that the color of my hair would
help, but it does. The Italians think I am Italian and
the Syrians think I am Syrian.
Julia Sladek.
SUCH AS I HAVE.
"Oh, mother, how terrible!" Esther looked up
from the paper she was reading, the quick tears roll-ing
down her face. "It's Mrs. Graham; there's been
an accident and her husband and two children were
killed. How I wish I could do something to help! If I I could only send her a lovely lily but 1 can't 1 have
nothing, yet I must do something, and tomorrow is
Easter, too. She will need the Easter message, won't
she, mother?"
For a long time Esther sat thinking, then she rose
quickly and taking her sweater and cap she slipped out
of doors. Way out into the country she walked, the
soft spring breeze blowing in her face. Everywhere
the birds were sinjrinjr exultantly and the sunshine
S fairly flooded the' earth; but Easter was thinking,
"How can I bring the Easter message to that poor,
poor woman?"
Suddenly as if in answer to her question she
caught the delicious fragrance borne by the breeze.
"Arbutus !" she cried, and scrambling over the wall she
ran across the field to the little stream beyond. There,
peeping up through the leaves and moss and the linger-ing
snow patches, she saw the waxen blossoms, flushed
with pink, their fragrance sweet as breath from
Paradise.
Carefully she picked the dainty blossoms land
gathering a bed of moss she hurried home. Covering
a box with snow-whi- te paper she placed her offering
inside and with loving fingers slipped in a note of lov-ing
thoughts, closing with a verse from Whittier's
"Eternal Goodness,"
I know not where God's islands
Lift their fronded palms in air; f ' I only know "they" cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
and that matchless verse, "I am the resurrection and
the Life; he that believeth on me though he were dead I yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth I in me shall never die." I Through the ribbon she slipped a spray of the I blossoms and sent the box to the home of sorrow. I When Mrs. Graham caught a glimpse of the wee bios-- I soms somehow the hopelessness left her her little I ones had loved them so ! With eager fingers she untied
the ribbon and read the message of the note. ,1
"Why, Father, they are in Thy keeping," she
whispered softly, while the tears fell unheeded. "They I are in Thy care. Oh, Father, there are so many who I have lost loved ones who do not know this! Help me I to show my trust in Thee that I may help these others I to know Thee and Thy love. I thank Thee for putting i I it into the heart of Esther to send this lovely gift of I cheer and hope. God bless her and keep her young I life from sorrow and heart ache." H
As she sat there ng the message of hope I and cheer the doorbell rang, announcing a visitor, and j I her pastor entered with words of kindly sympathy I H
and cheer. When he saw the blossoms his face became H
illumined. "Messengers of life immortal," he whis- - H
pered softly. Impulsively Mrs. Graham gave him a H
handful of the lovely blossoms and read him Esther's 3 I note. H
Not long after, he called again. "I came to tell H
you the story of the arbutus," he said. "When I H reached home the other day I placed them in my study H
and their fragrance filled the room as I worked, and H they seemed to say over and over, 'Mother, Mother!' H so I boxed them up, all but one spray, and sent them to H her with a copy of the poem. I received a letter from (H
her today saying that just before they came she had ' H received word from some friends who were not Chris-- ;B
tians, that they had lost their daughter; so mother ' H kept back one little spray and carried the rest to these H friends with the poem, and this led the way for the H Christ message and they gave their hearts to Him. H The blossoms were too crushed for further sending, '
but these people sent the poem on to some friends of
theirs who had lost a little one, and I understand that jM
it is still being sent on with its message of cheer. ' iM
Weeks after, when Esther learned something of
the result of her gift she whispered softly, "Silver and .
gold have I none, but such as I have I give. Father,
I'm so glad that I wanted to give and that I found the
blossoms." M. F. S.
"If you are aimless, ambitionless and goalless, it
is so easy to blame your heritage and environment, i
and deplore your lack of opportunity. Listen! One
man says, T do not go to church on Sunday because
I was never taught to go when I was young, so I did H
not form the habit.--' Another man says, T do not go
to church on Sunday because I was forced to go when
I was young and it grew distasteful to me.'
The truth of the matter is, if you do not want to
amount to anything, one excuse is as good as another, lll and there are plenty of them. But if you are a normal lH man or woman, you will have to go a long way to find Kl a reason why you should not reach the top.
Send us 50c and we will mail you a copy of the ,
"Shield." Full of good reading matter. Ready May 1.
Living is doing. Even while we say there is
nothing we can do, we stumble over opportunities for '
service that we are passing by in pur tear-blind- ed
self-pit- y. Clara Barton. il
I 6 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
FAME, LARGER SALARY OR SERVICE.
"A month or more ago it was announced that an
army lieutenant, noted tor his aviation record m the
A. E. 1, and as winner of the first transcontinental air
race, had resigned in order to resume his work as
clergyman which he had laid down at the opening of
the war. As he said:
"I am going to take the advice I received from a
man of eighty years who said, 'Don't be a fool. Go
back to your pulpit and give up flying and newspaper
About the same time a clean-cu- t, athletic type of
business man in Chicago, district manager of a prom-inent
insurance company, quit writing insurance pol-
I icies and returned to the ministry. It was a salary
change of $10,000 to $2,500. In explanation he said:
"My friends think I am crazy in returning to the
ministry after a successful business career, but there
are some things in life more precious than gold. Any-body
with brains and personality can succeed in busi-ness,
but it isn't everybody who can influence the lives
of those around them."
The same old question: Shall a man's life his
life service consist of the things he has, or is able to
get for himself fame, wealth, personal comfort,
"success" the gratification of his ego nature? Shall
beast?
his life-objecti- ve be equivalent to that of a glorified
Or, shall he make the frank choice of the place
where his talents and the relative human need the
need of humanity about him calls for such services as
he can give? In so doing he will gain, too, the gratifi-cation
of his own deeper, larger, more permanent self,
though certain comforts and so-call- necessities may
be put aside.
This, perhaps, is the supreme question of every
college man with an insight for the larger facts of life.
Large is the promise, these days, these hopeful,
troublesome, dangerous days, that the spirit dom-inating
the boys two and a half years ago as they
started for France, and that controlled the homefolks
as they saved and worked and forgot self, is slowly, I steadily gaining ground. It is influencing more and
more men, young and older, in spite of the prevailing,
but superficial, spirit of "get all you can while the
gettin' is good."
The ideals of might and the super-ma- n of Dar-win,
Bismark and Nietsche in militarism or business,
passing.
in nations and individuals are slowly but surely
Those of Jesus and human brotherhood, the earn-est
desire to sacrifice self, if need be, for the welfare
of humanity, are slowly but surely coming again to
the front."
We also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do,
that suffering produces fortitude; fortitude ripeness I of character; and ripeness of character hope; and that
this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us
floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has
been given to us. Paul's Letter to the Romans.
Piety is indispensable to a missionary but it will I not make up for brain power and learning From
Cyprian, The Churchman.
The more you read it the better you like it. What ?
The Shield.
I One book in a thousand The Shield of 1920.
RECONSTRUCTION AMERICANIZATION. ;
We are led to believe that with many people, even '
of our own beloved church, these two words Recon- -
struction and Americanization are newly "organ- - :
ized" words, and that the work which they bespeak
is almost a newly organized work. .
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Perhaps we are becoming more aroused to their "
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true meaning; perhaps our hearts are burning within i
us with new zeal with which to promote interest and
to give ourselves more wholly and earnestly than ever j
' before.
To Americanize a man or woman is a task that
cannot be completed in a day or a year, or in five years. j
But to undertake this task is one of the most wonder-ful
privileges granted to man or woman. It must be ;
a God-give- n task, and the one to whom the task is en- - I
trusted must be a servant of the King.
Americanization, to be successful, must be found-- jff1
ed on a basis of knowledge concerning the people who
are to be Americanized. This elementary fact seems ;
to have been forgotten by many warm-hearte- d, zeal-ous
people who, with their proposals for wholesale re-forms,
are like a man trying to build a house without ;
knowledge of wood or nails. 1
Making men and women is no small undertaking.
It means being moral and spiritual vertebrae to those :
who are not, by virtue of environment and early teach-ing,
equal to carrying themselves. They are steeped
with many "isms," creeds and doctrines "straight from j
the old country."
We study Italy from our Italian friends ; we study fj
Russia from our Russian friends ; we leam one country ffl
from another until indeed we feel familiar with every ff
country under the sun and feel almost at home as we fj
find ourselves in a Sunday School class on Sabbath 11,'
morning with the Swiss, Italian, German, Welsh, Rus- - !
sian, Chinaman and Amei'ican. I
Yes, making men and women, then Americans. j
Getting men and women into the Kingdom is not
likened even to getting them to be real Americans.
This is the hardest, most difficult task that has ever
been given to mankind. It can be done, but to accom-plish
that most difficult of all tasks takes every agency j
that has ever been created by human mind; and the j
foundation of these agencies must be the power of the j
gospel of Jesus Christ. Philadelphia Deaconess. j
When an instructor in an art school was asked by Jill
a student about the benefits derived from copying pic- - yill
tures, he replied : "When you copy, copy from a master- - ' fj jl
piece." This is the way to do in life, and according to ffl
Christ's command. l An old man and woman who had long neglected II
their souls happened into a church and heard a sermon 1,1
which led them to purchase a Bible. As they read jl they were overcome with conviction, and the man ex-- II
claimed, ''Wife, if these things are true we are lost." II
But as they continued reading they became so thrilled II
with Christ's invitations and promises that the hus- - I band said with triumphant joy, "Wife, if these things M
are true we're saved." Christ taught .the value of the B
Scriptures and the danger of indecision. fl
Susie O teachex. lookie at my work! I H
Teacher Presently, I'm busy just now, Susie. fi
Susie O teacher, you annoy me so ! H Jl "A child may forget or disdain a fact, but he -
never recovers from an impression. It is atmosphere, H
not dogma, that educates." Alice W. Rollins.
j,JH
I SILENCE. j
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God,
' .jjj I
Like a dewdrop in a crystal throbbing in the senseless clod; fm
Silence is the heart of all things, Sound the fluttering of the pulse, ,
' fl I
Which the fever and the spasm of the universe convulse. ' "g I
Every sound which breaks the Silence only makes it more profound, M I
Like a crash of deadening thunder in the sweet blue stillness drowned. I
Let thy soul walk softly in thee, as a saint in heaven unshod, Q I
For to be alone with Silence is to be alone with God. I
Somewhere on this moving planet, in the midst of years to be, fi I
In the Silence, in the Shadow, waits a loving heart for thee; $ 1
Somewhere in the beckoning heavens, where they know as they are known, I Are the empty arms above thee that shall clasp thee for their own. I
Somewhere in the far off Silence I shall feel a vanished hand; ,., I II Somewhere I shall know a voice that now I cannot understand; . I Somewhere! Where art thou, 0 spectre of illimitable space? I Silence scene without a shadow! silent sphere without a place. 'I
Go to Silence: win her secret, she shall teach thee how to speak; ' II
Shape to which all else is shadow grows within thee clear and bleak: 'I
Go to Silence: she shall teach thee; ripe fruit hangs within thy reach; n
He alone hath clearly spoken, who hath learned this: Thought is Speech. f
0 thou strong and sacred Silence, self-contain- ed in self-contr-ol ;
0 thou palliating Silence, Sabbath art thou of the soul!
Lie like snow upon my virtues, lie like dust upon my faults,
- , Silent when the world dethrones me, silent when the world exalts !
Wisdom ripens unto Silence as she grows more truly wise,
And she wears a mellow sadness in her heart and in her eyes. . 1
Wisdom ripens unto Silence, and the lesson she doth teach, I
Is the Life is more than language, and the Thought is more than Speech.
Samuel Miller Hageman. '
The following is the way one business man looks
upon his prayer relations to God.
"Teach me that 60 minutes make an hour, 16
ounces make a pound and 100 cents a dollar. Help me
to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear
conscience without a gun under my pillow, unhaunted
by the fear of those to whom I have brought pain.
I Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the square. Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money. Blind me
to the faults of the other fellow and reveal to me mine
own. Guide me so that each night when I look across
the dinner table at my wife I will have nothing to con-ceal.
Keep me young enough to laugh with my chil-dren.
And when come the smell of flowers and the
tread of soft steps and the crunching of wheels out
in front, make the ceremony short, and the epitaph,
'Here lies a man.' "
Personality is power. Not creeds, not dogmas,
not doctrines, not theologies, but personality. Linked
to books it is literary power; linked to organizations it I is administrative power; linked to the college it is edu-cational
power; linked to humanity it is social power;
linked to life it is philosophic power; linked to God it
is invincible power but always personality is power.
Dr. Chas. Wesley Burns.
H When a thing ought to be done it cannot be im- -
H7 possible. Now is the only word that belongs to us;
with the afterwhile-w- e have nothing to do. Mary
Lyon.
BY PRODUCTS OF PROHIBITION. I
By Elmer Lynn Williams. .1
The number of cases in the court of domestic re-- 1 11
hitions, Chicago, has been reduced fifty per cent since I l
Arrests in Uniontown, Pa., and surrounding j I county, have fallen off 70. This is the heart of the ,j H
Pennsylvania Coke region. H
Candy has replaced wine lists in New York hotels; j! H
the sales have quadrupled in the last few months. 'I
Preaching against alcoholism should be the under--
taking of all. Balthazar Brum, President of Uruguay.
I never drink anything but water. King Albert of jj
Belgium.
Now that the victory of arms is ours, we must
gird our loins for a greater triumph against alcohol. jH President Poincare of France, Nov. 9, 1919.
Civilization cannot afford longer to squander its jH time and treasure on the destruction of its own handi- - JH work. David Lloyd George. jH
I 1 8 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I
The crest and crowning
BROTHERHOOD.
of all good,
Life's final star is Brotherhood:
For it will bring again to Earth
Her long-lo-st Poesy and Mirth;
Will send new light on every face,
A kingly power upon the race.
And till it comes, we men are slaves, I And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Come, clear the way, clear the way;
Blind creeds and kings have had their day.
Break the dead branches from the path;
Our hope is in the aftermath
Our hope is in heroic men,
Star-le- d, to build the world again.
To this event the ages ran.
Make way for Brotherhood make way for man.
Edwin Markham.
I Shield.
Don't send a penny! Send fifty cents for the
Anything that ought to be done, can be done.
Immanuel Kant.
I "Nothing kindles man's hope for the future like his survey of the past." Matheson.
If only a man is kindly no one can repulse him. I Ivan Turgenieff: A Nobleman's Nest.
"Proper participation, in any enterprise, should I carry with it responsibility." Prof. Cammack.
One has not governed a child until she makes the I child smile under her government. Mary Lyon.
"One of the big factors in teaching is its worth-whilene- ss I and worthwhileness consists of service."
Prof. Cammack.
"A11 people who are be'fore their time are thought
to be behind it; they are charged by their contem-poraries
with folly." Matheson.
"There is something else this world of noise
Needs just now, sadly one of its best joys
The restful woman, who, amidst earth's riot, I Is eloquently quiet,
Knowing that stillness means not' being dull,
But, like the sunshine, bright and beautiful
t And warm, with tender life producing forces."
PERSONALS.
Mrs. H. J. Coker visited the School while in the
city recently.
Miss Estella McClain's brother, of St. Marys, Kas.,
I' visited her Easter Sunday.
Miss Mary Anderson, of Sedalia, Mo., visited her
training school friends April 2. ., ,.
. H
We were pleased to have a call recently from Dr. I S. A. Lough, president of Baker University. I
Misses Oldham, Bunting and Greenawalt each had I the pleasure of an Easter visit from her sister. I
Rev. Dewey Muir, of Baker University, visited his I sister, Miss Edna Muir, on his way to Conference at
Atchison.
Rev. F. P. Quick, business manager for the Ep- - I worth League central office, was a welcome guest H
March 19.
Miss Evelyn Hibbard entertained her father, H
Mr. J. E. Hibbard, of Springfield, Mo., for a week-en-d H
visit, March 27-2- 8.
Miss Vievie Souders, '07, superintendent of the
Shesler Deaconess Home, Sioux City, la., spent the day H with us April 1st, to our great pleasure. H
Miss Vera Rodger, secretary of the Y. W. C. A., H at Arkansas City, Kas., and Mrs. L. E. Woodward, of
Osborne, Kas., were guests of Miss Bernice Lough,
March 23.
April 1, the annual meeting of our local board was
held at the training school. After the regular business
and the election of officers, all remained to lunch with
us, and a happy time of good fellowship was enjoyed.
Mrs. Chas. A. Blair, of Carthage, Mo., president,
and Mrs. J. D. Bragg, of St. Louis, recording secretary, H
of the St. Louis Conference W. H. M. S., called at the 'H school while in the city attending the Kansas City H
District Convention. 'H
We are in receipt of the announcement of the mar-- .H riage of. Miss Gladys Dilley to Mr. Clarence Wesley IH Perry, March 15, at Alta Vista, Kas. Miss Dilley spent
a year with us, and we hope her life may be useful and IH happy as she becomes a home-make- r. jH
The Kansas Conference Epworth League Dis- - :H trict presidents held a meeting at the training school
March 19. Those present were Mr. C. F. Jaggard, Miss
Cecile Goodrum, Mr. George Dougherty, Rev. C. L.
Crippin, Rev. R. E. Gordon, Rev. L. F. Waring, Rev. A. iM L. Day, Rev. 0. C. Bronston and Rev. Clyde W. Brew- -
ster. 'M
Our field workers have been abundant in labors '
the past few weeks. Miss Britt was our representa-tiv- e
at the Kansas Conference session; Miss Tibbetts,
at the Southwest and Northwest Kansas Conferences;
Miss Rigg at the Northwest Kansas Conference. Sun-da- y
dates and evangelistic meetings and W. H. M. S.
work have occupied, the time of Miss Benedict, as well
as all the other workers.
'We are' glad to' 'welcome our friends at the train- - ll ing school, and record with pleasure, call from the fol- - jH lowing: Mrs. A. J.Hedman, Miss Mary Hedman, and
Miss Ruth Frieze, of Parsons, Kas. ; Mrs. L. L. Park and
Frances Park, Viola, 111. ; Mrs. L. L. Newkfrk, Minneap-- !H olis, Minn. ; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Tolle, McPherson,
Kas. ; Mrs. Jacob H. Goossen, Mrs. Jacob J. Loewen and ll Sister Elizabeth Harms, Hillsboro, Kan.; Miss Katie VH Dick,-Inman- , Kan. ; Rev.-- and Mrs. J. W. Oliver, Utica, IH Kas.; Rev. and Mrs. J. R, Creamer, Altoona, Kas. and fH Rev. C. Z. Allsbury, Strong City, Kas.

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VOL. XIII KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1920 NO. 6
"Except a corn of wheat fall
into the ground and die, it
abideth alone, but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit,"
"And I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men
unto me."
"Said I not unto thee, that
if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God."
2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
OUR LOOM
Possibly it has not
been "clacking" all day, for
the girls and boys who work on our loom do not
spend all of their time weaving rugs. However, as
the' few hours they attend
Home are helping them to
and plans of life the things
their "tomorrow." For the
the furnishing of a
for the child. To be sure,
and could you have seen
some of the nicest ones have
thought it too crude and
the effort of trying to trans-- I iOUR while. But it has been
patient, careful work in the
the transformation. And
boy and girl, we can see
in so many ways just like
the
guidance.
rug, each life needing
little Italian boy as he
sending the shuttle back
We had long wanted
boy, but his swift feet would
whenever we went near
urchin, seldom at home,
seemingly trying each day
from everything that was
now, he seems like such
a different fellow a boy with a new purpose. And
how eagerly he talks of his own little life problems;
yes, even asking for help with his school work, that he
may be able to make good grades !
"I wonder why I feel so dizzy all the time now,"
was the question asked by one of the girls one evening;
' "I am so tired and sleepy when I get home from work
I, at night that I don't want to go anywhere.'1 We had
I gotten the strong odor of tobacco from her clothing,
t and felt sure that in some way that was the cause. We
questioned her about it and she told us of her work in
' the cigar factory, working all day in a small room with
ten other girls and no ventilation. Was it any wonder
that both mind and body, as well as the clothing, should
become saturated with the nicotine, and she would be
so tired and dizzy? "But," she added, as she tied a
broken thread in the loom, "I tell you there is one thing
J I will hot do ; the girls tell me I won't be able to stand
it if I don't eat the tobacco leaves, and I won't do that
because I think it would be wrong, wouldn't it?" Yes,
it would be all wrong, and just as the broken thread
left unmended would mean the marring of the whole
rug, so to leave our girl working under such conditions
would mean the marring of her whole life.
There are other boys and girls working at this
loom of ours. They, too, need encouragement and
direction, for as children leave the class to go to their
own homes (?) most of them do not find there the
mother who has even the first principles of instilling
1 into her child's mind the thoughts and purposes of
true living; not because she would not, but in her
earlier days she had not had the chance, or the kind
friend, or the Deaconess Home to give to her the ideals
which we are now aiming to give to her child. So
these children turn to the Deaconess Home, and from
us they must receive the ideals that will weave into
their lives the threads of honesty and truth and up- -
' I rightness, until the warp and woof is so intermingled
with the material, that in turn they may weave these
principles into the boys and girls with whom they
come in contact daily, as well as the brothers and . ji
sisters, the fathers and mothers. I'
Thus, as silently as the shuttle goes to and fro j
through our loom, the silent influence of the Christ i
is being carried into our homes of the community,
transforming the lives of our people, until we have
a veritable piece of handiwork as has been wrought i
at the Deaconess Home fitting our folks for their
places "at the loom of the great world-weaving-."
Notes from the work of the Philadelphia Deaconess i
Home.
I MYSELF AND I.
I have to live with myself and so I
I want to be fit for myself to know. I
I want to be able as days go by, I
Always to look myself in the eye. I I don't want to stand, with the setting sun, I And hate myself for the things I've done. I I want to go out with my head erect; 1
I want to deserve all men's respect; I But here in the struggle for fame and pelf, I I want to be able to like myself. I I don't want to look at myself and know I That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show. I I can never hide myself from me, I I see what others may never see; I I know what others may never know, I I can never fool myself, and so, I Whatever happens, I want to be I Self respecting and conscience free. .1
Author unknown. H
WHAT THEY DO. I During the year the membership of the Home has
been seventeen. At present it is thirteen. We have a H
number of changes among our workers. Miss Olla H
Cloud was married to Rev. T. A. Phillips, Easter Day; H
Miss Ellen Hall asked for leave of absence July 1, to H
attend school ; and Miss Laura Gamble entered work in H
Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 1. The following have en-- fl tered the Home Miss Aubrey Tyree, in Nov., 1918,
from the Detroit Home; Miss Sarah Hambleton in H
Sept., from the Newark, N. J. Home; Miss Veryl Haines H
of this year's class, of Kansas City National Training H
School. 'H
All lines of work have been advanced, through the
epidemic hindered the industrial work. There was a
total of 5,441 taught in industrial classes. We have
three industrial centers Wall St. Mission, Helping
Hand Mission, both of Sioux City and the Ft. Dodge
Mission. With the opening of colored work at Haddock
church, it was necessary to move our industrial work
to Helping Hand Mission. The mission at Ft. Dodge
has rented a large house with rooms suitable for reli-gio- us
and industrial work, also with rooms for workers.
Our workers have kept in touch with the needs and pos-sibiliti- es
of their fields as evidenced by 1,041 canvass, M
7,165 parish, 2,374 sick and 4,502 hospital calls. Regu-la-r
visitation is made at the county farm, jails and
hospitals. Meetings have been held regularly at the
packing house and wholesale houses. The traveling
public has not been forgotten, as 15,230 have been
aided. The work of religious education is well looked
after with a total of 9,085 children and young people
under instruction. Our workers have witnessed the
conversion of 420; 4,124 tracts, magazines, testaments
and leaflets have beeen distributed. Recreation has iH not been forgotten. Hundreds have been in the play
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1 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3 V hour and story-tellin- g: classes. One of our Deacon-esse- s
chaperoned the largest delegation at the Epworth
League Institute. 212 children were taken to Crystal
Lake camp for several days and 410 were taken on day
outings. The relief calls were not as many as some
years 882 were aided, 3,220 garments given and
$332.25 expended. Notes from the Sioux City, Iowa,
Deaconess Home.
HAVE WE FOUND TIME TO BE ALONE TODAY?
Have you and I
Stood silent, as with Christ, apart from joy or fear
Of life, to see by faith His face;
To look, if but a moment, at its grace,
And grow, by brief companionship, more true,
More nerved to lead, to dare, to do
For Him at any cost? Have we today
Found time, in thought, our hand to lay I In His and thus compare
His will with ours, and wear
The impress of His wish? Be sure
Such contact will endure
Throughout the day; will help us walk erect
Through storm and flood; detect
Within the hidden life sin's dross, its stain ;
Revive a thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver ; help us see
The footpath meant for you and me.
Selected. I THE PATTERN-MAKER'- S RULE.
H By the Rev. Charles Stelzle. H My chum was an apprentice in the pattern shop. H Somtimes I ate my lunch with him and then together H we roamed about the shop, studying the new machines H as well as the old ones. But one of the things that H strongly impressed me was his own set of "shrinkage" H rules. I discovered for the first time that every pat-- H tern was made larger than the mold was intended to be, H because when the pattern was put into the sand and
the mold was cast, the casting came out smaller than H the pattern, because of the shrinkage of the cooling H metal. For cast iron the rule was made an eighth of an H inch larger to the foot; for brass three sixteenths, H and for steel one-quart- er of an inch. H But so our models and our ideals always suffer in H the work of embodiment. Beethoven tells us that his
Ht beautiful symphony is but an empty echo of the l heavenly music he heard in his dreams. H It lost its divinest charm when he transferred it to H manuscript. Emerson says: "Hitch your wagon to H a star." It may be easier to build castles in the air H than to construct huts upon the ground, but the man H who never has a vision cannot even build a hut that H will really be worth while. The dreamer has his place H in the world's work, for every machine and every H great enterprise was dreamed out before it was worked B out. But dreaming and doing must go together. H Each by itself alone makes man either a drone or a H drudge. H Especially should the intensely practical man H that "hardheaded" fellow learn to center his thoughts
H on things that are not always to be found in the work--
H aday world. It will give him a broader outlook and it
H will round off some of those sharp corners that some- -
H what irritate his fellows.
Hi That pattern-maker- 's shrinkage rule taught me
Hj " that if my life was to square itself with the plans laid
out for me by God, so that it would harmonize and fit
H in with other worthy lives and plans, my ideal as to
what I should be and do must be higher and better
than the average, for those ideals would suffer
grieviously when transmuted into practical every-da- y
living. If my ideals were higher than the average,
perhaps I would make a pretty good, ordinary sort of
a fellow. I
An art student once fell asleep over the task given i
him by his master. As he lay there the master came
into his studio and with a swift glance saw the narrow-ness
of the student's unfinished work. Taking a
crayon he wrote across the face of the canvas the single '
word, "Amplius" larger. When the young fellow
awoke he grasped his master's idea, and as he realized !
how cramped had been the vision of his work he re-ceived
a new inspiration, and later he became one of
the world's greatest painters.
As Jesus looks into every man's life He writes J
across it the word "Larger" fuller. He Himself said: 11
"I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might gj
have it more abundantly." It would truly be a fine U
thing to measure up even to the best that has already I
come to us in our visions, for if we were one-ha- lf as I II
good as we know how to be we would be twice as good M
as we are. a
GREATNESS. . 'ill
We can be great by helping one another;
We can be loved by very simple deeds. I Who has the grateful mention of a brother III
Has really all the honor that he needs. ' Ml
We can be famous for our works of kindness. I'm
Fame is not born alone of strength and skill; J '
It sometimes comes from deafness and from blindness 1 ;
To petty words and faults, and loving still. 1 '
We can be rich in gentle smiles and sunny; I
A jeweled soul exceeds a royal crown. I
The richest men sometimes have little money, I
And Croesus oft-'-s the poorest man in town. J
Author unknown. I
If3
j
worlds,' said a minister, 'if God called me to do it; but 3
if He didn't call me to do it, I wouldn't undertake to
govern half a dozen sheep.' Was it not D. L. Moody j
who said : Tf God told me to jump through a stone
wall I'd try it. The jumping would be my part, the j I
getting through, God's?' When God's orders to us
are plain and unmistakable, He'll take care of the im- - 1
possibilities." j
"It is said that wlien Spurgeon was beginning to fI feel his wonderful power as a preacher and leader, one jjfl
day while walking across a common, he seemed to hear H
a voice saying, 'Seekest thou great things for thyself? H
Seek them not.' Spurgeon's full consecration, which fifl
deepened and ripened with the years, began at once H
on that common. Everything that came into his life
afterwards was of no value when compared with
Christ, eternal life and spiritual riches." H
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4 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
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KANSAS CITY, MO., APRIL, 1920
The new addition to our Mexican Mission helps
to make our work more effective by providing adequate I room for the separate classes. It is also an aid in fur-thering
our club work.
It is with deepest regret and a sense of personal I loss that we learn of the death of Bishop Matt. S.
Hughes, which occured in Cleveland, Ohio, April 4.
May 7? Yes, that is the date of the Mite Box
Opening, and we fully expect to meet our goal of $1,-000.- I occasion.
Perhaps you want to have a part in the joy-T- ul
How dear to our hearts were the eggs that you sent us!
We scrambled and fried them and had them on toast.
We greeted them gladly, the first of the season;
And the cook made some cakes which we all lilted
the most. I Those cases of eggs we hailed as a blessing
When the express-ma- n brought them to view.
We ate them with pleasure and heart-fe- lt thanksgiving,
And oh, how they tasted if you only knew.
Some one has said that "music, the greatest of
the fine arts, has magic power to calm the soul when
all other influences fail." Through their interest in
the work of our Mexican Mission, the Kansas City I District W. H. M. S. has made it possible for us to
reach these people through good music by giving us
a piano for our work. These people enjoy music and
it is a pleasure to hear them express their apprecia-tion
story."
of this gift by the way they sing the "old, old,
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students of the training school are doing.
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VISION AND TASK.
You ask me to tell you something of my work. , I
When it comes to that my heart is full and I do not I
know where to begin. Never before had I the vision i for the Americanization of our new comers as I have 1
it now. The great steamers pour out their human m
cargo at the feet of Liberty to be melted in our great Eg
Melting Pot, but without the fire of Christianity and m
the conception of true religion we cannot expect ideal I
Americans. From my observation I am convinced m
that Christian Americanization is the hope of future 1
America. fm
In our work we have two nationalities: Syrian 9
and Italian. I find that the Italian people take more m
pride in their homes and families, and their homes are w
cleaner. There is room for improvement, though. JM
The poorer class of our Italians work in the railroad sJM
shops. They receive fair wages, but it seems that they $1
do not know what it means to economize. They are m
carefree people and love pleasure. The men spend their
leisure time in Greek Coffee Houses. It was more than H
a Coffee House before prohibition; but now they are m
putting some kind of dope into the coffee, making nj
it very strong and injurious to the health. m
Another menace we have is card playing. The jfu
men lose their money gambling. A mother of four fl
children told me that her husband gambled even her jjji
wedding ring away. So far we are not able to do any-- . jm
.thing; the proprietors have the police bribed. H
The women do not know how to sew, therefore . a
they buy all their clothing ready made, and as most v H
of them have large families it takes lots of money to if,
keep them clothed. You may be surprised to know I
that in going around visiting I have discovered only I
seven Italian families having a sewing machine. I
We have a Mothers' Club for these women and I
teach them how to sew and make over things. Once I
a month we have a lecture on the value of food and I
economy; also on health and care of babies. We also I
have socials for them, where they enter into the simple j
games like children, with full hearts. M
Then we have Night School, with a present enroll- - f
ment of 28 Syrians, 18 Italians and 1 Austrian. This II
is a very promising feature of our work. It is wonder-- 11
ful how eager the men are to know our language and I
ways. We have three classes. The Board of Edu-- III
cation sends a teacher who has two classes. I have 111
the advanced class. We have a great many oppor- - J
tunities for Christian discussion, and we have them, jjl
too. Some of the men have been here from five to J
twenty years and have never been inside of a church, ft
yet they say they are Catholics. One young man had 1 1
not seen a Bible since he left Italy until the one I 1
gave him, and now it is his daily companion. I feel I1
that the night school is the only way we can get hold I
of the men. "j I
We also have a Queen Esther Circle of fifteen I
girls, all foreign born. They are so happy to do some-- "i
thing for others. jj
We have just organized a Boy Scout troop under h
a good leader. We neel to save our boys from the M
streets, especially in this city. 1 I We have sewing classes for girls on Saturday.
Our Sunday School is growing. At Christmas ft
time we sent $5.00 to the Orphans' Home in Italy, 1
and the rhildren are anxious to do something ik. that I H
again. The rhildrpn are faithful to the Sunday School If
though the Catholic priest is after them continually. V
One little crirl found a remedy for getting out of going I H
to the Catholic church by over sleeping every Sunday. jl
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H THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5
Another little girl said she got a whipping for coming,
I Due with ner tea eyes sinning she swu, "i come any- -
I way!"
I We have services for everybody Sunday evening.
I As a resuit of these services tms winter live aauus
I will be uaptized and join the Metnodist church. 1 am
I very happy over that.
I ao lots or" caning and have nothing but respect
from these people. Yvhen once I get tne confidence
of the mother that I am trying to heip her sue is
very grateful, and whenever the baby has an ache
she brings it to the mission to me.
One boy, eleven years old, said one day, "I want
to go to the mission; there's where Jesus is."
Our Syrian people work for the Utah Fire & II Clay Company, receiving very poor wages, and a good
many of the Syrians peddle goods from house to house.
Some of their homes are very nice, but most of them
are very poorly furnished and are dirty. The women
have no education; some do not even know how old
they are. The men seem to be more refined and take
pride in their looks.
The foreign population in our district numbers
800 Syrians and about 600 Italians. Of these I have
discovered only three Mormons. The larger per cent
are Catholics. There is a great field here.
I am learning both Syrian and Italian, and can
say a few words. It helps me to get into their homes.
You would not imagine that the color of my hair would
help, but it does. The Italians think I am Italian and
the Syrians think I am Syrian.
Julia Sladek.
SUCH AS I HAVE.
"Oh, mother, how terrible!" Esther looked up
from the paper she was reading, the quick tears roll-ing
down her face. "It's Mrs. Graham; there's been
an accident and her husband and two children were
killed. How I wish I could do something to help! If I I could only send her a lovely lily but 1 can't 1 have
nothing, yet I must do something, and tomorrow is
Easter, too. She will need the Easter message, won't
she, mother?"
For a long time Esther sat thinking, then she rose
quickly and taking her sweater and cap she slipped out
of doors. Way out into the country she walked, the
soft spring breeze blowing in her face. Everywhere
the birds were sinjrinjr exultantly and the sunshine
S fairly flooded the' earth; but Easter was thinking,
"How can I bring the Easter message to that poor,
poor woman?"
Suddenly as if in answer to her question she
caught the delicious fragrance borne by the breeze.
"Arbutus !" she cried, and scrambling over the wall she
ran across the field to the little stream beyond. There,
peeping up through the leaves and moss and the linger-ing
snow patches, she saw the waxen blossoms, flushed
with pink, their fragrance sweet as breath from
Paradise.
Carefully she picked the dainty blossoms land
gathering a bed of moss she hurried home. Covering
a box with snow-whi- te paper she placed her offering
inside and with loving fingers slipped in a note of lov-ing
thoughts, closing with a verse from Whittier's
"Eternal Goodness,"
I know not where God's islands
Lift their fronded palms in air; f ' I only know "they" cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
and that matchless verse, "I am the resurrection and
the Life; he that believeth on me though he were dead I yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth I in me shall never die." I Through the ribbon she slipped a spray of the I blossoms and sent the box to the home of sorrow. I When Mrs. Graham caught a glimpse of the wee bios-- I soms somehow the hopelessness left her her little I ones had loved them so ! With eager fingers she untied
the ribbon and read the message of the note. ,1
"Why, Father, they are in Thy keeping," she
whispered softly, while the tears fell unheeded. "They I are in Thy care. Oh, Father, there are so many who I have lost loved ones who do not know this! Help me I to show my trust in Thee that I may help these others I to know Thee and Thy love. I thank Thee for putting i I it into the heart of Esther to send this lovely gift of I cheer and hope. God bless her and keep her young I life from sorrow and heart ache." H
As she sat there ng the message of hope I and cheer the doorbell rang, announcing a visitor, and j I her pastor entered with words of kindly sympathy I H
and cheer. When he saw the blossoms his face became H
illumined. "Messengers of life immortal," he whis- - H
pered softly. Impulsively Mrs. Graham gave him a H
handful of the lovely blossoms and read him Esther's 3 I note. H
Not long after, he called again. "I came to tell H
you the story of the arbutus," he said. "When I H reached home the other day I placed them in my study H
and their fragrance filled the room as I worked, and H they seemed to say over and over, 'Mother, Mother!' H so I boxed them up, all but one spray, and sent them to H her with a copy of the poem. I received a letter from (H
her today saying that just before they came she had ' H received word from some friends who were not Chris-- ;B
tians, that they had lost their daughter; so mother ' H kept back one little spray and carried the rest to these H friends with the poem, and this led the way for the H Christ message and they gave their hearts to Him. H The blossoms were too crushed for further sending, '
but these people sent the poem on to some friends of
theirs who had lost a little one, and I understand that jM
it is still being sent on with its message of cheer. ' iM
Weeks after, when Esther learned something of
the result of her gift she whispered softly, "Silver and .
gold have I none, but such as I have I give. Father,
I'm so glad that I wanted to give and that I found the
blossoms." M. F. S.
"If you are aimless, ambitionless and goalless, it
is so easy to blame your heritage and environment, i
and deplore your lack of opportunity. Listen! One
man says, T do not go to church on Sunday because
I was never taught to go when I was young, so I did H
not form the habit.--' Another man says, T do not go
to church on Sunday because I was forced to go when
I was young and it grew distasteful to me.'
The truth of the matter is, if you do not want to
amount to anything, one excuse is as good as another, lll and there are plenty of them. But if you are a normal lH man or woman, you will have to go a long way to find Kl a reason why you should not reach the top.
Send us 50c and we will mail you a copy of the ,
"Shield." Full of good reading matter. Ready May 1.
Living is doing. Even while we say there is
nothing we can do, we stumble over opportunities for '
service that we are passing by in pur tear-blind- ed
self-pit- y. Clara Barton. il
I 6 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS
FAME, LARGER SALARY OR SERVICE.
"A month or more ago it was announced that an
army lieutenant, noted tor his aviation record m the
A. E. 1, and as winner of the first transcontinental air
race, had resigned in order to resume his work as
clergyman which he had laid down at the opening of
the war. As he said:
"I am going to take the advice I received from a
man of eighty years who said, 'Don't be a fool. Go
back to your pulpit and give up flying and newspaper
About the same time a clean-cu- t, athletic type of
business man in Chicago, district manager of a prom-inent
insurance company, quit writing insurance pol-
I icies and returned to the ministry. It was a salary
change of $10,000 to $2,500. In explanation he said:
"My friends think I am crazy in returning to the
ministry after a successful business career, but there
are some things in life more precious than gold. Any-body
with brains and personality can succeed in busi-ness,
but it isn't everybody who can influence the lives
of those around them."
The same old question: Shall a man's life his
life service consist of the things he has, or is able to
get for himself fame, wealth, personal comfort,
"success" the gratification of his ego nature? Shall
beast?
his life-objecti- ve be equivalent to that of a glorified
Or, shall he make the frank choice of the place
where his talents and the relative human need the
need of humanity about him calls for such services as
he can give? In so doing he will gain, too, the gratifi-cation
of his own deeper, larger, more permanent self,
though certain comforts and so-call- necessities may
be put aside.
This, perhaps, is the supreme question of every
college man with an insight for the larger facts of life.
Large is the promise, these days, these hopeful,
troublesome, dangerous days, that the spirit dom-inating
the boys two and a half years ago as they
started for France, and that controlled the homefolks
as they saved and worked and forgot self, is slowly, I steadily gaining ground. It is influencing more and
more men, young and older, in spite of the prevailing,
but superficial, spirit of "get all you can while the
gettin' is good."
The ideals of might and the super-ma- n of Dar-win,
Bismark and Nietsche in militarism or business,
passing.
in nations and individuals are slowly but surely
Those of Jesus and human brotherhood, the earn-est
desire to sacrifice self, if need be, for the welfare
of humanity, are slowly but surely coming again to
the front."
We also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do,
that suffering produces fortitude; fortitude ripeness I of character; and ripeness of character hope; and that
this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us
floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has
been given to us. Paul's Letter to the Romans.
Piety is indispensable to a missionary but it will I not make up for brain power and learning From
Cyprian, The Churchman.
The more you read it the better you like it. What ?
The Shield.
I One book in a thousand The Shield of 1920.
RECONSTRUCTION AMERICANIZATION. ;
We are led to believe that with many people, even '
of our own beloved church, these two words Recon- -
struction and Americanization are newly "organ- - :
ized" words, and that the work which they bespeak
is almost a newly organized work. .
'
Perhaps we are becoming more aroused to their "
I
true meaning; perhaps our hearts are burning within i
us with new zeal with which to promote interest and
to give ourselves more wholly and earnestly than ever j
' before.
To Americanize a man or woman is a task that
cannot be completed in a day or a year, or in five years. j
But to undertake this task is one of the most wonder-ful
privileges granted to man or woman. It must be ;
a God-give- n task, and the one to whom the task is en- - I
trusted must be a servant of the King.
Americanization, to be successful, must be found-- jff1
ed on a basis of knowledge concerning the people who
are to be Americanized. This elementary fact seems ;
to have been forgotten by many warm-hearte- d, zeal-ous
people who, with their proposals for wholesale re-forms,
are like a man trying to build a house without ;
knowledge of wood or nails. 1
Making men and women is no small undertaking.
It means being moral and spiritual vertebrae to those :
who are not, by virtue of environment and early teach-ing,
equal to carrying themselves. They are steeped
with many "isms," creeds and doctrines "straight from j
the old country."
We study Italy from our Italian friends ; we study fj
Russia from our Russian friends ; we leam one country ffl
from another until indeed we feel familiar with every ff
country under the sun and feel almost at home as we fj
find ourselves in a Sunday School class on Sabbath 11,'
morning with the Swiss, Italian, German, Welsh, Rus- - !
sian, Chinaman and Amei'ican. I
Yes, making men and women, then Americans. j
Getting men and women into the Kingdom is not
likened even to getting them to be real Americans.
This is the hardest, most difficult task that has ever
been given to mankind. It can be done, but to accom-plish
that most difficult of all tasks takes every agency j
that has ever been created by human mind; and the j
foundation of these agencies must be the power of the j
gospel of Jesus Christ. Philadelphia Deaconess. j
When an instructor in an art school was asked by Jill
a student about the benefits derived from copying pic- - yill
tures, he replied : "When you copy, copy from a master- - ' fj jl
piece." This is the way to do in life, and according to ffl
Christ's command. l An old man and woman who had long neglected II
their souls happened into a church and heard a sermon 1,1
which led them to purchase a Bible. As they read jl they were overcome with conviction, and the man ex-- II
claimed, ''Wife, if these things are true we are lost." II
But as they continued reading they became so thrilled II
with Christ's invitations and promises that the hus- - I band said with triumphant joy, "Wife, if these things M
are true we're saved." Christ taught .the value of the B
Scriptures and the danger of indecision. fl
Susie O teachex. lookie at my work! I H
Teacher Presently, I'm busy just now, Susie. fi
Susie O teacher, you annoy me so ! H Jl "A child may forget or disdain a fact, but he -
never recovers from an impression. It is atmosphere, H
not dogma, that educates." Alice W. Rollins.
j,JH
I SILENCE. j
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God,
' .jjj I
Like a dewdrop in a crystal throbbing in the senseless clod; fm
Silence is the heart of all things, Sound the fluttering of the pulse, ,
' fl I
Which the fever and the spasm of the universe convulse. ' "g I
Every sound which breaks the Silence only makes it more profound, M I
Like a crash of deadening thunder in the sweet blue stillness drowned. I
Let thy soul walk softly in thee, as a saint in heaven unshod, Q I
For to be alone with Silence is to be alone with God. I
Somewhere on this moving planet, in the midst of years to be, fi I
In the Silence, in the Shadow, waits a loving heart for thee; $ 1
Somewhere in the beckoning heavens, where they know as they are known, I Are the empty arms above thee that shall clasp thee for their own. I
Somewhere in the far off Silence I shall feel a vanished hand; ,., I II Somewhere I shall know a voice that now I cannot understand; . I Somewhere! Where art thou, 0 spectre of illimitable space? I Silence scene without a shadow! silent sphere without a place. 'I
Go to Silence: win her secret, she shall teach thee how to speak; ' II
Shape to which all else is shadow grows within thee clear and bleak: 'I
Go to Silence: she shall teach thee; ripe fruit hangs within thy reach; n
He alone hath clearly spoken, who hath learned this: Thought is Speech. f
0 thou strong and sacred Silence, self-contain- ed in self-contr-ol ;
0 thou palliating Silence, Sabbath art thou of the soul!
Lie like snow upon my virtues, lie like dust upon my faults,
- , Silent when the world dethrones me, silent when the world exalts !
Wisdom ripens unto Silence as she grows more truly wise,
And she wears a mellow sadness in her heart and in her eyes. . 1
Wisdom ripens unto Silence, and the lesson she doth teach, I
Is the Life is more than language, and the Thought is more than Speech.
Samuel Miller Hageman. '
The following is the way one business man looks
upon his prayer relations to God.
"Teach me that 60 minutes make an hour, 16
ounces make a pound and 100 cents a dollar. Help me
to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear
conscience without a gun under my pillow, unhaunted
by the fear of those to whom I have brought pain.
I Grant that I may earn my meal ticket on the square. Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money. Blind me
to the faults of the other fellow and reveal to me mine
own. Guide me so that each night when I look across
the dinner table at my wife I will have nothing to con-ceal.
Keep me young enough to laugh with my chil-dren.
And when come the smell of flowers and the
tread of soft steps and the crunching of wheels out
in front, make the ceremony short, and the epitaph,
'Here lies a man.' "
Personality is power. Not creeds, not dogmas,
not doctrines, not theologies, but personality. Linked
to books it is literary power; linked to organizations it I is administrative power; linked to the college it is edu-cational
power; linked to humanity it is social power;
linked to life it is philosophic power; linked to God it
is invincible power but always personality is power.
Dr. Chas. Wesley Burns.
H When a thing ought to be done it cannot be im- -
H7 possible. Now is the only word that belongs to us;
with the afterwhile-w- e have nothing to do. Mary
Lyon.
BY PRODUCTS OF PROHIBITION. I
By Elmer Lynn Williams. .1
The number of cases in the court of domestic re-- 1 11
hitions, Chicago, has been reduced fifty per cent since I l
Arrests in Uniontown, Pa., and surrounding j I county, have fallen off 70. This is the heart of the ,j H
Pennsylvania Coke region. H
Candy has replaced wine lists in New York hotels; j! H
the sales have quadrupled in the last few months. 'I
Preaching against alcoholism should be the under--
taking of all. Balthazar Brum, President of Uruguay.
I never drink anything but water. King Albert of jj
Belgium.
Now that the victory of arms is ours, we must
gird our loins for a greater triumph against alcohol. jH President Poincare of France, Nov. 9, 1919.
Civilization cannot afford longer to squander its jH time and treasure on the destruction of its own handi- - JH work. David Lloyd George. jH
I 1 8 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I
The crest and crowning
BROTHERHOOD.
of all good,
Life's final star is Brotherhood:
For it will bring again to Earth
Her long-lo-st Poesy and Mirth;
Will send new light on every face,
A kingly power upon the race.
And till it comes, we men are slaves, I And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Come, clear the way, clear the way;
Blind creeds and kings have had their day.
Break the dead branches from the path;
Our hope is in the aftermath
Our hope is in heroic men,
Star-le- d, to build the world again.
To this event the ages ran.
Make way for Brotherhood make way for man.
Edwin Markham.
I Shield.
Don't send a penny! Send fifty cents for the
Anything that ought to be done, can be done.
Immanuel Kant.
I "Nothing kindles man's hope for the future like his survey of the past." Matheson.
If only a man is kindly no one can repulse him. I Ivan Turgenieff: A Nobleman's Nest.
"Proper participation, in any enterprise, should I carry with it responsibility." Prof. Cammack.
One has not governed a child until she makes the I child smile under her government. Mary Lyon.
"One of the big factors in teaching is its worth-whilene- ss I and worthwhileness consists of service."
Prof. Cammack.
"A11 people who are be'fore their time are thought
to be behind it; they are charged by their contem-poraries
with folly." Matheson.
"There is something else this world of noise
Needs just now, sadly one of its best joys
The restful woman, who, amidst earth's riot, I Is eloquently quiet,
Knowing that stillness means not' being dull,
But, like the sunshine, bright and beautiful
t And warm, with tender life producing forces."
PERSONALS.
Mrs. H. J. Coker visited the School while in the
city recently.
Miss Estella McClain's brother, of St. Marys, Kas.,
I' visited her Easter Sunday.
Miss Mary Anderson, of Sedalia, Mo., visited her
training school friends April 2. ., ,.
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We were pleased to have a call recently from Dr. I S. A. Lough, president of Baker University. I
Misses Oldham, Bunting and Greenawalt each had I the pleasure of an Easter visit from her sister. I
Rev. Dewey Muir, of Baker University, visited his I sister, Miss Edna Muir, on his way to Conference at
Atchison.
Rev. F. P. Quick, business manager for the Ep- - I worth League central office, was a welcome guest H
March 19.
Miss Evelyn Hibbard entertained her father, H
Mr. J. E. Hibbard, of Springfield, Mo., for a week-en-d H
visit, March 27-2- 8.
Miss Vievie Souders, '07, superintendent of the
Shesler Deaconess Home, Sioux City, la., spent the day H with us April 1st, to our great pleasure. H
Miss Vera Rodger, secretary of the Y. W. C. A., H at Arkansas City, Kas., and Mrs. L. E. Woodward, of
Osborne, Kas., were guests of Miss Bernice Lough,
March 23.
April 1, the annual meeting of our local board was
held at the training school. After the regular business
and the election of officers, all remained to lunch with
us, and a happy time of good fellowship was enjoyed.
Mrs. Chas. A. Blair, of Carthage, Mo., president,
and Mrs. J. D. Bragg, of St. Louis, recording secretary, H
of the St. Louis Conference W. H. M. S., called at the 'H school while in the city attending the Kansas City H
District Convention. 'H
We are in receipt of the announcement of the mar-- .H riage of. Miss Gladys Dilley to Mr. Clarence Wesley IH Perry, March 15, at Alta Vista, Kas. Miss Dilley spent
a year with us, and we hope her life may be useful and IH happy as she becomes a home-make- r. jH
The Kansas Conference Epworth League Dis- - :H trict presidents held a meeting at the training school
March 19. Those present were Mr. C. F. Jaggard, Miss
Cecile Goodrum, Mr. George Dougherty, Rev. C. L.
Crippin, Rev. R. E. Gordon, Rev. L. F. Waring, Rev. A. iM L. Day, Rev. 0. C. Bronston and Rev. Clyde W. Brew- -
ster. 'M
Our field workers have been abundant in labors '
the past few weeks. Miss Britt was our representa-tiv- e
at the Kansas Conference session; Miss Tibbetts,
at the Southwest and Northwest Kansas Conferences;
Miss Rigg at the Northwest Kansas Conference. Sun-da- y
dates and evangelistic meetings and W. H. M. S.
work have occupied, the time of Miss Benedict, as well
as all the other workers.
'We are' glad to' 'welcome our friends at the train- - ll ing school, and record with pleasure, call from the fol- - jH lowing: Mrs. A. J.Hedman, Miss Mary Hedman, and
Miss Ruth Frieze, of Parsons, Kas. ; Mrs. L. L. Park and
Frances Park, Viola, 111. ; Mrs. L. L. Newkfrk, Minneap-- !H olis, Minn. ; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Tolle, McPherson,
Kas. ; Mrs. Jacob H. Goossen, Mrs. Jacob J. Loewen and ll Sister Elizabeth Harms, Hillsboro, Kan.; Miss Katie VH Dick,-Inman- , Kan. ; Rev.-- and Mrs. J. W. Oliver, Utica, IH Kas.; Rev. and Mrs. J. R, Creamer, Altoona, Kas. and fH Rev. C. Z. Allsbury, Strong City, Kas.